THE EXPRESS 3 HAS ARRIVED

June 5, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

EXPRESS 3, the first of so far three newbuildings for Molslinjen’s expansion plan on Kattegat and the Baltic Sea went into operation last week. The Evolution One12 Wave Piercing-catamaran is also Molslinjen’s first new ship since the mid-nineties, special adapted for the company’s high-frequent operation between Aarhus and Zealand. Several parameters have been “evolutionised” from […]

BARCELONA (MED PORTS VOL. III)

March 26, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

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Most of my photo sessions in Barcelona follow the same pattern: Reunion with friends and brunch at the café Cava Universal. Then a 150 meters stroll down to the quay for the obligate harbour cruise, or should I say port cruise, Barcelona is a huge (cruise) port. Then a busy half hour photographing cruise ships, […]

Olbia (Med Ports Vol. II)

February 26, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Last time I visited Olbia was on a cruise ship an autumn morning. That provided a rather spectacular scenery overviewing the east-facing farirway into the extremely busy ferry port. I have always been impressed by the number of ferries servicing Sardinia’s only 1.6 million inhabitants with Olbia as the leading port, but supplemented by Porto Torres, […]

Civitavecchia (Med Ports vol. I)

February 5, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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Italy’s advanced capital port to the Med, Civitavecchia figures some impressive numbers. According to the latest statistics, the port on an annual basic handles nearly 2.3 million cruise passengers from no less than 794 calls. The capital hinterland and the central location for the national coastal traffic and the connections to the three major Mediterranean […]

The final call at The Great Belt

December 31, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

A classic car ferry form the decade before the golden age of private motoring and original built in 1952 for The Danish Railways to the car ferry service crossing The Great Belt, is now likely to be preserved. With more than 20 years as a floating nightclub, the general conception was that BROEN’s preservation potential […]

Five years of Samsø ferries

December 11, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

SAMSØ appears behind a field at the new Ballen ferry harbour.

The new established harbour south of Ballen servicing Danske Færger’s east-route to Kalundborg opened 2015.

The new harbour also features a beautiful designed terminal building with a viewing platform.

SAMSØ departs Ballen a December afternoon.

And now heading towards Zeeland and Kalundborg.

Municipality-owned LNG-powered PRINSESSE ISABELLA photographed from the hill Dyret (The beast or maybe just the animal).

PRINSESSE ISABELLA, here under its original name SAMSØ, arrives Sælvig form Jutland.

The naming of Samsø’s present ferries is a bit complicated. The municipality of Samsø introduced their new building in 2014 with the obvious name SAMSØ, promotion the local community, but later renamed it after the second oldest child of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, Princess Isabella, born 2007. Danske Færger quickly snapped the name to their ferry on the east-route, formerly named KANHAVE after an old man-made channel from the Viking age on the island.

Back in 2011 Danske Færger traded under the brand Nordic Ferry Service on both the east- and west-route. Here the ferry KYHOLM on the Zeeland line heading south off Samsø towards the small harbour at Kolby Kaas, used for the east-route until the opening of the new Ballen facility.

These two KYHOLM-photos are photographed from the Vesborg Lighthouse located on the southernmost tip of the island. The name Kyholm originate from a small-uninhabited island northeast of Samsø.

KYHOLM at Kolby Kaas in Nordic Ferry Service livery with a funnel logo inspired by a rope.

KANHAVE was originally built to the west-route. Here the ferry arrives at Sælvig from Hou back in 2011.

KANHAVE again two years later.

Here berthed in Sælvig.

Now KYHOLM rebranded in the livery of Danske Færger in 2013.

The ferry is photographed from the coastline just east of Kolby Kaas harbour a December morning.

Finally a few shots from the northernmost part of the island, Issehoved, overlooking the Aarhus fairway, Djursland and another un-inhabited island, Hjelm.

Mols-Linien’s fast ferries between Aarhus and Zeeland pass close to Issehoved.

Car ferries to both Jutland and Zeeland connect the Kattegat island of Samsø. The west-route to Hou 30 km south of Aarhus and the east-route to Kalundborg 100 km from Copenhagen. Both lines are public subsidised, or owned – and underwent several changes in operators, ports and tonnage the past five years.

MSC OPERA off Grenen (Skagen vol. I)

October 9, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

One of several cruise ships, which on a daily basis pass Grenen – the northern-most tip of Denmark, during the summer season. A small series from a lovely July evening photographed from one of the dunes.

On new territory

September 18, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

After two and a half decades of regular traveling to Europe’s ferry hotspots, Scotland was still an almost uncharted territory for me. At least until this summer, where I had the chance to combine an invitation to attend a friend’s wedding party on Arran with a three nights stay in Oban. That offered a central […]

Rare photo opportunity

August 28, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The majority of cruise calls in Aarhus during summer takes place within 08:00 and 18:00. From a photography perspective this limit the potential numbers of photo sessions with attractive light conditions. However AIDA VITA’s 19:30 departure the other day was an exception. I therefore drove the 50 km to Sletterhage Lighthouse to take advantage of […]

Exterior study: Much awaited new ferry finally in her right elements

August 21, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Illustration: Scandlines

The newbuilding BERLIN went into operation May this year, four years later than originally planned. Following this autumn, her coming fleet mate, the remaining fifty procent of the much-needed tonnage renewal and expansion on the Gedser-Rostock-route, COPENHAGEN will join in, Scandlines announce. It was miscalculations and use of over-dimensioned steel plates, among other things at […]